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Targeting climate change protesters, not the fossil fuel problem

Climate change protestors have come to be seen as part of a verminous brood that global fossil-fuel lobbies and corrupt, weak officials, elected or...

27.01.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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Situation critical: UNRWA and its continued operations

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), told the United Nations Security...

24.01.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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AUKUS ‘defence’: Flawed and sinking

Pillar 1 of the AUKUS security arrangement between Australia, Britain and the United States, envisages the transfer and building of nuclear-powered...

16.01.2025 20

Green Left Weekly

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The Merry telegram: How US aid and economic shock therapy deformed Russia

The Merry telegram: How US aid and economic shock therapy deformed Russia
10.01.2025 6

Pearls and Irritations

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Jimmy Carter, Israel and the apartheid question

The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US presidents. Coming to power in...

03.01.2025 3

Pearls and Irritations

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Australian monopolies and iceless fokkers

He looked like a young, freshly sprouting Henry Kissinger, before complicity in war crimes began, and plagiarism became commonplace in allegedly...

29.12.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

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Jesting on the environment: Australian mining gets a present

How reassuring it is to be a mining magnate in Australia. Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry...

28.12.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

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Tanya Plibersek: Jesting the environment

Mining magnates are the unelected captains of industry. While the official rhetoric might, seemingly, be at odds, especially when it comes to...

28.12.2024 10

Green Left Weekly

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The Strawman of Antisemitism: Banning Protests Against Israel…

Of late, a spate of incidents has taken place in Australia giving sheer delight to the simian-resembling Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton. On a...

20.12.2024 5

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Feeding Chaos: Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence

The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. W e are creating a temporary buffer zone from which...

19.12.2024 20

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Feeding Chaos: Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence

The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. W e are creating a temporary buffer zone from which...

19.12.2024 20

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Foiling Rupert Murdoch: Project Harmony misfires

The case concerning the control of the Murdoch family trust has been decided. It involves a dicey attempt by the one of the most ruthless newspaper...

19.12.2024 4

Green Left Weekly

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Last Acts: Time for Biden to Pardon Assange

Since making what w as likely a life-saving plea deal to spare himself from the medieval barbarities of the US prison system, Julian Assange, and...

18.12.2024 20

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Last Acts: Time for Biden to Pardon Assange

Since making what w as likely a life-saving plea deal to spare himself from the medieval barbarities of the US prison system, Julian Assange, and...

18.12.2024 20

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Foiling Rupert Murdoch: Project Harmony Misfires

The case that began on September 17 concerning the control of the Murdoch family trust has been decided. It saw a dicey attempt by the one of the...

18.12.2024 20

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Foiling Rupert Murdoch: Project Harmony Misfires

The case that began on September 17 concerning the control of the Murdoch family trust has been decided. It saw a dicey attempt by the one of the...

17.12.2024 5

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Finding the Unmentionable: Amnesty International, Israel and Genocide

It was bound to happen. With continuing operations in Gaza, and increasingly violent activities being conducted against Palestinians in the...

17.12.2024 4

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Ding Dong, Australia’s Misinformation-Disinformation Bill is Dead

Regulating speech at law is much like regulating breath. At what point is an intake of air deemed in appropriate to the body and worthy of...

12.12.2024 10

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Chilling Warnings for Syria: When Foreign Interventions Go…

The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly. Joyful residents taking selfies on abandoned, sullen tanks. Armed men ebullient and...

11.12.2024 10

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The Sectarian Risk: Turkey’s Syrian Mission

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdo ğ an must be delighted about what is unfolding in Syria , though it is a feeling bound to be tempered by swiftly...

09.12.2024 10

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FIFA’s Cooked Findings: Saudi Arabia’s World Cup Bid

FIFA ha s done it again. With its usual sparkle of inventive interpretation, amoral reasoning, and snappy bravura, the world football federation...

08.12.2024 30

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The Melbourne synagogue fire: Antisemitism, political meddling and exceptional victimhood

In his ongoing campaign to pad and shield criticism of Israel in the conduct of its war of gross bloodletting in Gaza, Israel’s Prime Minister...

08.12.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Absent justice: Australia’s Afghanistan war crimes investigations thin out

Small to middle-sized states often crow at undertaking what are vulgarly described as “world firsts”. Australia is certainly one of them, with...

03.12.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

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The Syrian Civil War: New Phases, Old Lies

A new bloody phase has opened up in Syria , as if it was ever possible to contemplate another one in that tormented land . Silly terms such as “...

03.12.2024 3

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Gallic Stubbornness: France, Netanyahu and the ICC Arrest…

The comity of nations , at least when it comes to international humanitarian law, took a rather curious turn with the announcement by France that...

30.11.2024 20

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Another nail in the coffin for Australia’s phantom defence needs

The US submarine base was always going to come first, not for the sake of supplying useless boats for Australia’s phantom defence needs, but for...

29.11.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

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The ABC’s Colonel Blimp

The position of a state broadcaster, one funded directly by taxpayer s from a particular country, place s it in a delicate position. The risk of...

28.11.2024 3

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Ironic Dependency: Russian Uranium and the US Energy…

Be careful who you condemn and ostracise . They just might be supplying you with a special need . While the United States security establishment...

27.11.2024 3

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Arrest Warrants from The Hague: The ICC, Netanyahu…

The slow, often grinding machinery of international law has just received a push along with the issuing of three arrest warrants by the...

26.11.2024 10

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The Hague and ICC’s arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

The slow, grinding machinery of international law has just received a push along with the International Criminal Court issuing three arrest...

26.11.2024 4

Green Left Weekly

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The hypocrisies of COP29

COP29 was always going to be memorable, if for no other reason than Azerbaijan, the host country, is a petro state and its rulers are indifferent...

23.11.2024 4

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Fencing the Ocean: Australia’s Social Media Safety Bill

The Australian government is being run ragged in various quarters . When ragged, such a beast is bound to seek a distraction. And what better than...

23.11.2024 2

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Trump, AUKUS and Australia’s Dim Servitors

There is something enormously satisfying about seeing those in the war racket worry that their assumptions on conflict have been upended. There...

22.11.2024 40

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Satellite honours for AUKUS: Joe Courtney’s Order of Australia Award

Joe Courtney, who serves as Congressman for Connecticut’s second district, has received a rather curious honour. It has come in the form of a...

21.11.2024 2

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Faux electoral reform: Entrenching the Australian Party Duopoly

Australia’s establishment parties are running scared. The Albanese Labor government is particularly scared. Tumbling in the polls, increasingly...

19.11.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

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Thank You for Emitting: The Hypocrisies of COP29

COP29 was always going to be memorable , for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan , is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of...

19.11.2024 2

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Natural Resources and Palestinian Sovereignty: Israel’s Further Isolation

Two more United Nations committee resolutions . Both concerning the conduct of Israel past and current. While disease, hunger and death continue to...

17.11.2024 4

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Blinken Atrocious in a Dangerous World

It is hard to credit one of the least impressive Secretary of States, the United States has ever produced with any merit other than being a...

15.11.2024 2

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They Were There First: Election Denialism, the Democratic…

The scene is memorable enough. November 2016. The Twin Peaks Tavern, Castro District. Men gathered , beside themselves . “It’s shocking how...

13.11.2024 30

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The Remembrance Day Amnesia Racket

It was catastrophic, cataclysmic and all destructive. It wiped out empires and aristocracies and tore through the middle class. The First World War...

12.11.2024 4

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The Remembrance Day amnesia racket

World War I was catastrophic, cataclysmic and all destructive.  It wiped out empires and aristocracies and tore through the middle class. It was a...

12.11.2024 2

Green Left Weekly

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The Musings of Shigeru Ishiba: Visions of an…

Japan’s new prime minister , Shigeru Ishiba , is stirring the pot – notably on regional security matters. He has proposed something that has done...

11.11.2024 4

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South Africa presents the ICJ with more evidence on Israel’s genocide

The timing, as with so much in Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon, was most appropriate. The Israeli Knesset on October 28 signalled its intent to...

07.11.2024 4

Green Left Weekly

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The Price of Eggs: Why Harris lost to…

It takes some skill to make Donald J. Trump look good. Two Democrats have succeeded in doing so: Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2024....

07.11.2024 10

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Ruthless Settlements: BHP, Brazil and the Samarco Fundão…

The BHP Group , as with other mining giants, has much explaining to do in the way it has approached the environment. It has become a master of the...

05.11.2024 50

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Perceptions of bias: The National Anti-Corruption Commission and Robodebt

From the outset, a question mark hovered over whether Australia’s federal National Anti-Corruption Commission would serve the purpose of shedding...

04.11.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

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South Africa’s Memorial to the ICJ: More Evidence…

The timing, as with so much in the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon, was most appropriate. The Israeli Knesset had signalled its intent on...

03.11.2024 60

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Virtuous, Smug and Venal: British Electoral Interference in…

The British cannot help themselves. They are a meddling island people who conquered huge swathes of the earth in a fictional fit of...

31.10.2024 6

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Cattle Dog Gusto: How Bluey Conquered the United…

For decades, the cultural phenomenon known as Americanisation has taken place with diffusing e ase . Momentum was gained with the retreat of...

29.10.2024 3

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The Queensland contradiction: Reflections on a state election

Lock up criminally minded children and teach them a firm lesson. Mind your cars, mind your keys. Chat about the Olympics and moan about whether...

28.10.2024 2

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